It’s been so long since the last episode of Community was on, or so it seems, that when the show returns, it’s going to be weird seeing Donald Glover as the happy-go-lucky, cookie-eating, mouse-serenading Troy Barnes that we fell in love with as hard as he did LeVar Burton. It’s been a Childish Gambino fall, with tales of Instagram sadness and hipster wet dreams, and it’s going to continue into the winter with Because the Internet.

Earlier this week, Gambino dropped by Sway in the Morning to hype the album and freestyle over Drake’s “Pound Cake.” It tackles crises both universal (“You know, cause like, people say money’s not everything/But money, you need money to do what you wanna do”) and personal (“Are you still on the show? Are you dating Jhené?”), with some toilet jokes in there, too (“Ice cold but you know I burn cash like I had herpes.”) It’s damn good.

I’m not trying to be sarcastic or anything, but I thought “fresstyle rapping” means “rapping with no prepared lines or verses”, right? Maybe it’s just me but I doubt he can come up with such lyrics just out of his head, immediately, with no preparation. Or “freestyle rapping” means “to compose a song out of many ideas and rhymes that you’d already had”?

Pretty sure even the best rappers would find it hard to come up with tons of bars completely off the top of their heads. I imagine most have a bunch of lines/couplets they wanna use or have been working on and might bust them out for a freestyle.

Referencing his rambling about pills around the 2:05 mark, I like rappers and their myth that people are scared of them. I’m fairly certain no one is scared of Donald Glover or worried about him being violent. Put him in most crowded placed and the overwhelming response would be, “and who is that guy? Haven’t I seen him in something?” The hipster-facation of rap is amusing to this grandpa. If anyone needs me, and they don’t, I’ll be in my SUV talking about the days of Tupac and Biggie.

I believe his line is that they’re trying to give him pills, like he’s violent. Like, he just gets depressed sometimes, but people are trying to insist he take pills, as if he’s violent and needs to be controlled.

…That’s all hard to explain; but I don’t think he’s saying *he’s* violent at all.